Golan Heights Wind Farm

Golan Heights Wind Farm

The Golan Heights Wind Farm is located on Mount Bnei Rasan ( _he. הר בני רסן, Har Bnei Rasan, _ar. الغسانية, Al Assanyieh), 5 km south of Quneitra on the Golan Heights, Israel, on 1050 m above sea level. The farm was built in 1992 by the Mey Eden (Waters of Eden) mineral water company, supported by the then-Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

It includes 10 turbines generating 6 MW in total. The energy is consumed by the Mey Eden plant, the Golan Heights Winery and about 20'000 people. The remaining energy is fed into the electrical grid.

Mey Eden built Israel's first wind farm, or even the first commercial wind-power project in the Middle East [ [http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/425/middle-easts-first-wind-farm/ Middle-East’s First Wind-Farm] CleanBeta, June 13, 2008] .

Technical data

[http://mg-wind.starwebz.com/company.html Mey Golan Wind Energy Ltd.]

Future plans

Mineral water company Mey Golan (=Waters of Golan) was granted a license to build a $500 million and 400 MW wind farm also on the Golan Heights. The project consists of about 150 turbines spread over 140 km2 in north-eastern Golan Heights, from the Druze village Majdal Shams to moshav Alonei HaBashan and will be built predominantly within private owned orchards.

The partnership between Mey Golan and US energy giant AES Corporation is worth $600 million [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974898.html AES, Mei Golan to build wind turbines farm] , HaAretz, Apr. 16, 2008] .

According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, there are a number of wind farms planned in the Galilee, in the Arava and in the Negev. A number of actions was taken [ [http://greenprophet.com/2008/08/08/1474/wind-energy-golan/ Israel’s first wind energy developer .. gets windier on the Golan] GreenProphet, Aug. 8, 2008] , among those are
* identification of wind-intensive sites
* granting and licensing assistance to windfarm developers
* R&D support

For Yoav Tsur, Israel's only wind farm operator so far, the future of the wind farm is uncertain due to the talks with Syria [ [http://www.hadassah.org/news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/Oct/travel.htm The Golan Heights] Hadassah magazine, Oct, 2000] .

References

External links

[http://www.mg-wind.starwebz.com/ Mey Golan Wind Energy Ltd.]


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